For the first time in nearly 30 years, John Kerry’s former U.S. Senate seat is up for grabs today without an incumbent in the race. Is the winner going to be the GOP’s Gabriel Gomez, the investor and former Navy SEAL who’s trying to cast himself as an independent thinker, or Ed Markey, D-5th, the veteran congressman who’s painted himself as a legislative leader and advocate for Massachusetts?

Don’t remember where your polling place is? Find out here. Don’t know anything about the candidates? Read up on their final debate and check out our profiles of Markey and Gomez. You didn’t vote this morning and now you’re stuck at work? It’s cool – polls are open until 8 p.m. Why bother? Here are the stakes.

See? You’re all out of excuses, unless you never registered to vote in the first place, in which case, this.

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